Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 140
Said Gwrhyr, "Who is it that laments in this house of stone?"
Who acts: Gwrhyr · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gwrhyr), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Gwrhyr | Gwrhyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 it | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 it | punct |
| 5 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 it | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 it | cop |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 laments | mark |
| 9 | laments | lament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 it | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laments | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 laments | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Gwrhyr | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | wall | laments in this house of stone nmod | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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